Rising tensions between the Northern and Southern states were caused by the events following the Compromise of 1850 and the struggle to overpower the balance between pro-slavery and anti-slavery states. Bleeding Kansas were the result of tempers at an all-time high and the Fugitive Slave Act did not help the strain between the two territories and their different beliefs. Also, after Lincoln was elected president, the Southern Secession was a major push in sparking the beginning of the Civil War.
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